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SSRI use during pregnancy: potential effects on fetal brain development

Posted by , on 10 November 2022

There have been long-standing debates around the risk of selective serotonin uptake inhibitor (SSRI) use during pregnancy due to the potential effects on fetal brain development. Our studies, which have ...
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Upcoming meeting: Recognizing preprint peer review

Posted by , on 9 November 2022

Over the last few months, I’ve been involved in a project coordinated by ASAPbio looking at the potential benefits of, and challenges with using, public preprint peer review – for ...
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Genetics Unzipped: Little Shop of Genetic Horrors - the evolution of carnivorous plants

Posted by , on 3 November 2022

of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, we’re looking at the gruesome world of plants eating animals. There’s something unnatural about carnivorous plants. We’re so used to plants being at the ...
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'Extraembryonic tissues: exploring concepts, definitions and functions across the animal kingdom'

Posted by , on 2 November 2022

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Extraembryonic tissues: exploring concepts, definitions and functions across the animal kingdom Compiled and edited by Guojun Sheng, Thorsten E ...
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Embryo Geometry

Posted by , on 2 November 2022

Dear Node Colleagues, This is my inaugural Node post. Around 1990, Stephen Jay Gould dedicated my copy of his Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1979), writing, “Thank you for tackling my real book.” As ...
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3-year postdoc position for a bioinformatician

Posted by , on 1 November 2022

The Steinmetz group at the Sars Centre in Bergen (Norway) is looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in analysing high-throughput sequencing datasets (bulk, single-cell, ATAC-Seq). The project aims to characterise ...
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Lewis Wolpert Memorial Symposium - Meeting Report

Posted by , on 1 November 2022

To many readers of the Node, Lewis Wolpert, who died on 28th January 2021, was above all a developmental biologist—one of the most distinguished and influential of his generation. But ...
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